This paper deals with a philosophical question that arises within the theory of computational complexity: how to understand the notion of INTRINSIC complexity or difficulty, as opposed to notions of ...

In a recent op-ed published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and ...

In a recent op-ed in PNAS, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening ...

Katie Parrott in Working Overtime Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Every time I publish a new essay, I go through the same ritual. I download a Word document of ...

Some languages, like PowerShell, have “anonymous recursive functions”. That is, normally, a function needs to use a name to refer to itself to recur. But “anonymous recursion” means the language has ...

What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a shared system of symbols ...

Here’s a quick rundown of the process: Visit the official Python website. Navigate to the ‘Downloads’ section. Select your ...

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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

The author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k struggled for 15 months to write his best-seller before he stumbled on the 4-hour rule. It changed everything.